Name KRI Viper (820) Commissioned 20 October 2006 Tonnage 100 tons | Namesake Viperidae Class and type Type PC-40 patrol boat Length 40 m | |
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Status in active service, as of 2012 | ||
KRI Viper is a Type PC-40 patrol boat of the Indonesian Navy. It was commissioned on 20 October 2006 by Indonesian National Armed Forces Commander Marshal Djoko Suyanto.
Contents
There are a total of 11 boats in the PC-40 class, KRI Viper, Piton, Weling, Matacora, Tedung Selar, Boiga, Krait, Tarihu, Alkura, Birang, and Mulga.
Armaments
The vessel is equipped with Russian-made 25 mm and 12.7 mm calibre machine guns. It also has a combat information room, a communication room and an ammunition store room.
Notable deployments
Viper helped recover some of the bodies from the ferry MV Levina 1.
References
KRI Viper Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA